History: Specific Events & Topics
Subjects
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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Wagon-Making in the United States
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£23.99| /This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...
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Wanderlust
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers the...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£33.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War in Afghanistan
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£106.99| /This book is an overview of the war in Afghanistan; strategy, military operations and issues for Congress. As the 111th Congress convenes and the O...
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Way of the Pirate
Brick Tower Press (UK)£5.95| /A true treasure trove of maritime history. 'The Way of the Pirate' is a fascinating account of the men, women, kings and countries that aided, supp...
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We Dared to Live
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£17.99| /An engrossing saga that adds significantly to the body of Holocaust literature. Abraham H Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League. Abrash...
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We Will Not Cease
Otago University Press£16.00| /"To oppose the military machine means to accept the possibility that one may be destroyed by it." Archibald Baxter. We Will Not Cease is the unfl...
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Were You There?
Empire Publications (UK)£20.00| /Manchester's Free Trade Hall was arguably the most important popular music venue in Great Britain between 1951 and 1996. After several incarnations...
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What Makes the Nobility Noble?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£76.99| /In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...
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When Buffalo Ran
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£10.99| /Wikis, an Indian, tells his own story of how he grew from a child to a man, preserving the life and teachings of days that have long since passed a...
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When the Future Came: The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet statesRussia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...
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Who Knew?!
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...
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Who Loves You Like This
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wildest of the Wild West
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades con...
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Wires in the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...
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Wish You Were Here
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Before email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were im...
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With Unshakeable Persistence
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£18.99| /A compilation of individual stories based on the author's interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers. Comic at times, tragi...
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Witness
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£36.99| /Inside these pages are some of the most famous drawings to emerge from a survivor of Nazi extermination camps.
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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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Wonders of the Yellowstone
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£84.99| /The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...
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Wool
Schiffer£18.99| /Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. Wool's colorful and surprisingly e...
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Working Lives c. 1900
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identit...
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Working the Rock
Boulder PublicationsOriginal price £23.99Current price £19.99| /Between 1892 and 1930, American photographer Edith S. Watson made repeated trips to outport Newfoundland and coastal Labrador, getting to know the ...
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World of Patience Gromes
Cune Press (US)£16.99| /In 1970, Patience Gromes was an 83 year old widow who lived on State Street in Fulton, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Richmond, Virginia. Thi...
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Writ in Water
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£45.00| /This book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civil...
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Yamoria -- The Lawmaker
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the Northern Canadian Dene cam...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...
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Yi Fao: Speaking Through Memory
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Bravo to the New Westminster Museum and Archives for their groundbreaking research into the history of Yi Fao, and for their understanding that the...
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Yijarni
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting agains...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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Zagare
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£16.99| /When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little did she realise th...
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